OVER THE RANGE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 14104, 2 May 1919, Page 3

OVER THE RANGE

[The "Times" car leaves Palmerston at 4 o'clock eacli morning, and runs via Aokautere and Woodville, to Dannevirke, and returning via Te Rehunga and Kiritaki to Woodville, Pahiatua, and Ballance, and thence to Pahnerston via the Gorge, 105 miles each day. These Notes below are supplied by our Travelling Representative, with headquarters at Dannevirke. Office in Ward Street, or Box 155, Dannevirke.] DANNEVIRKE DOINGS. Lieut. Allan Anderson, one of the soldier sons of Mr G. I. Anderson, Mayorelect, returned from the front on the day of his father's big victory at the polls. Lieut. Anderson left with the Main Body raid has therefore seen a great deal of active service and had many experiences in the several arduous campaigns. Lieut. Anderson left New Zealand with the rank of sergeant, which he held when he belonged to the Territorials. Mr G. I. Anderson, the new Mayor of Dannevirke, is 5G years of age and carries on a large coachbuilding business. Mr Anderson has been connected with the Borough Council for several years and has always polled exceedingly well at contests for the council. He is one of the quiet, effective forces in social and civic life. For six years he has been chairman of the Finance and Town Hall Committee. He is one of the principal instrumentalists of the Anzac Orchestra. His family have a very good record of patriotic service, four of them being amongst the earliest volunteers. The big majority by which Mr Anderson was returned is a tribute to his popularity and integrity and business ability. Another ballot took place between Guard Ferguson and Porter Eossiter as to which of them should be the delegate to the special railway conference in Wellington. The first ballot resulted in a dead heat, but the second one was a win for Guard Ferguson by one vote. On the occasion of the first ballot all of the staff voted with the exception of one man. Mr W. G. Batten, of the Repatriation Department, is to meet the local Repatriation Committee on Monday afternoon.

Mr John Kerr is acting as deputyclerk of the court till the appointment of a new clerk. Mr Smith, the late clerk, left for Hastings on Thursday. Mr F. Donaldson, a returned soldier, has acquired the storekeeping business carried on for many years by the late .Mr Cf. W. French. Xo bankruptcies have been recorded locally for some considerable time. Fair bags are reported by early sportsmen at the opening of the shooting season, but nothing out of the ordinary. WOODVSLLE WHISPERS. The election of nine councillors resulted: S. Turnbull 241, E. R. Grenlinton 235, E. W. Euddiek 217. G. J. Goldfinsk 210, W. G. Simpson 200, H. Galbraith 200, A. M. Pickering 183, A. H. Hustwiek 157/ J. A. Fraser 155. Defeated: A. L. McCullogh 152, G. W. | Wardrop 152, C. W. Giles 117. Messrs I Hustwiek aud Simpson are the new ■ members of the council. Alfred Walshaw, licensee of the Masonic Hotel, was on Wednesday lined £5 and costs 7s, by Magistrate Free, for exposing liquor for sale. A charge of keeping his licensed premises open after hours for the sale of liquor was withdrawn. James Alfred Bridges and Albert Cowper for being on Masonic Hotel premises after hours without reasonable excuse, were fined 20s and costs 7s. A similar charge againt Percy Geo. Burlace was dismissed. A Dannevirke taxi-driver named Arthur E. (Mick) Russell was fined 4.0s and costs 7s at the local Court on Wednesday for driving at a speed dangerous to the public. Police witnesses dcelared that the car travelled along the | Napier-Woodville road on a dark night at from 55 to t>o miles an hour. De- ; fondant said the pace was about 25 j miles an hour. To avoid, running into a dairy herd lie took certain precautions and the car skidded, and a tyre was greatly damaged. He had a number of passengers with him, including a returned "soldier named J. S. Allardice, of Dannevirke. The magistrate thought it fortunato there had not been a serious accident, considering the locality. Russell was also fined 40s and costs for being on licensed premises during the currency of a prohibition ] order. i

A soldier named J. S. Hannah, who did not appear, was lined £2 and costs its, in default seven days' imprisonment, for obstructing Jesse Stone, railway ticket inspector, on the WoodvillcPahiatua train. A dispute arose over a ticket and defendant assaulted the inspector. In the Juvenile Court, two local youths on charges of theft at the railway refreshment rooms, were admitted to probation for twelve months. As the outcome of a recent collision in Vogel Street, a Maharahara West farmer named James Howse was fined 10s and costs 7s for driving a vehicle without a.light, and for being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart. He was fined 40s and costs 235. Judgment for plaintiffs by default: H. Burley v. L. L. Ashley, claim 27s Gd, costs ss; Same v. F. T. N-edhum, claim £3 13s, costs 28s 6d. Mr J. Stone, railway ticket inspector, of Palmerston North, is at present on his annual leave. Another watered milk case was heard on Wednesday. John P. Meredith was fined £5 and costs 16s lOd for selling milk witli G per cent, of added water. Inspector Wallwork, of Dannevirke, who prosecuted, had taken samples of the milk. There were several extenuating circumstances in the case, there never being any previous complaints against defendant during the past two years. For tin? defence, it was suggested that the construction of the milk-can was such that it enabled ram water to gather round the lid and on the date 'in question when the last sample was taken by the inspector from the delivery can. it had been raining heavily all the morning. A testimonial signed by defendant 's customers was put in, and Messrs Voedl, who had obtained the signatures, aud John Harding, who had known defendant for many years, gave him the highest, character. The tnagistrate said it was

rather difficult to bolicvo ruin water got in in the way suggested, but it was apparently possible, and he would give defendant the benefit of the doubt and only inflict a light penalty. He remarked that with the exception of the percentage of water mentioned, the

inilk was above the required standard otherwise. MAHARAEAEA NOTES. There" "was a large attendance at the Welcome Home Social tendered to Drivers "W. and P. Gibson at the Heretaunga School on Wednesday evening. The floor was in excellent condition for dancing, which was kept up with gerat vigour until early morning. The music for the dance was supplied by Miss Webb, and a splendid supper was provided by the committee. At a fitting interval during tho proceedings both soldiers were presented with gold medals.